Do you believe it or not?

Madisyn 2022-04-23 07:01:17


At the hearing, the black host asked: You didn't bring back evidence, no video footage, no artefacts, just stories with questionable credibility. With over fifty million dollars spent, over a dozen lives lost, are you going to sit there and say to us, accept it all with one faith?
The heroine looked at her priestly boyfriend and replied, "Is that possible that it never happened?" Yes. As a scientist, I have to admit, I must voluntarily admit this. and a string of yes.
The priestly boyfriend was starting to be a little disappointed, maybe the answer he was expecting was: I've had that experience, I've been through it, so it's true, it's impossible to pretend it didn't happen.
Judging by the film's performance, the female scientist did experience that wonderful moment, but she was caught in a situation that could not be proved and could not be falsified. In science, it might just be the hallucinations of female scientists in extremely stimulating environments; in religion, it might be a miracle.
(But between the two wormhole transitions, there was a flash of a construct, implying a materiality that skewed the narrative toward science.)
A film that captures this divide has the potential to become Classic base. The film exploits the divide between science and religion. "The Fantastic Journey of Young Pi" took advantage of the divide between good and evil in the extreme environment, and it was also successful.

A digression: in the face of a crime, even if you conclude from various signs that the suspect killed someone, you have no evidence or the evidence is lost.
Some people will answer: Is it possible that the suspect did not kill? Yes,
some people will answer: You are the murderer! Even if you are acquitted by a court, you are bound to suffer in hell (or die well).
Quite a few people think of themselves as the former when they have a rational discussion; if the incident happened to themselves or someone close to them, they tend to the latter.

If the movie cuts out the plot of the heroine passing through the wormhole and seeing the virtual father, and replaces it with the simple narration of the heroine, as an audience, which side do you stand on? To believe or not to believe?

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Extended Reading
  • Janis 2021-10-21 15:30:21

    How did Goddess Judy blend Loli's demeanor and Yujie's temperament into one! What a nice view!

  • Lesley 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    Although it is still a bit long, the explanation of the point of "pursuing the truth" is still in the heart: the original life of life or the ultimate mystery of the universe, the similarity of human beings as a whole and the differences of individuals, the intersection and confrontation of science and religion, the climax makes people feel excited The surging, casually blacked out politics, it looks good. Tech madman Zemikis played with the President of the United States again this time, and what was more astonishing than the alien phase in space was the long mirror and looked at it several times.

Contact quotes

  • S.R. Hadden: [over video feed from Mir space station] I wanna show you something.

    [shows satellite feed to Ellie]

    S.R. Hadden: Hokkaido Island.

    Ellie Arroway: The systems integration site.

    S.R. Hadden: Look closer.

    [zooms satellite feed to reveal second machine]

    S.R. Hadden: First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? Only, this one can be kept secret. Controlled by Americans, built by the Japanese subcontractors. Who, also, happen to be, recently acquired, wholly-owned subsidiaries...

    Ellie Arroway: [speaks with Hadden] ... of Hadden industries.

    S.R. Hadden: They still want an American to go, Doctor. Wanna take a ride?

  • S.R. Hadden: The powers that be have been very busy lately, falling over each other to position themselves for the game of the millennium. Maybe I can help deal you back in.

    Ellie Arroway: I didn't realize that I was out.

    S.R. Hadden: Well, maybe not out... but certainly being handed your hat.